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Session C: PSYCHOLOGY OF LIBRARY SPACE
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The message/tone that the library sends out to our patrons
Hierarchal or egalitarian message?

Discouraging/intimidating signage
Encouraging signage

Flexibility
Shelves on wheels - but do you move the wheels? How do we make use of the flexible 

Bad Swedish library example: chained chairs

Demountable walls, movable walls
Canada: Need to design 3 years before

Changing collections >>> change architecture?

DIGITAL SIGNAGE
Problem with digital collections: invisible - How to visualize digital content and services?
Cloud
Discovery? How to mimic the experience?

Lisa: 
How to design wthout signage?
Imagery? Literal signage - 

Visual design inspired by the metro map -  a user journey - "the relevant stops"
Colours
Sound

Rasmus:
Interactive signage actvated when entering

Design for self-organization: let he users mould the librat space
It's difficula to design FOR users, better TOGETHER with users?
Belgium: everything arranged towards the light side of the library, high bench w high chairs, movable chairs.

The phases we've gone through during the last 20 years in libraries:
1. Digitization of libraries
2. Librarization of the digital world
3. De-digitization of the library 
4. Internet of Things


Mobile devices
The smartphone

The behaviour

Bibliocommons